In the contemporary world when there is a general supposition of the perilous effect of smoking throughout the world, the international community up in arms against this habit and the respective governments are keeping no stone unturned to inflict the widest restrictions on smoking, it has been found in the recent years that on the contrary the habit of smoking and the number of smokers is on a gradual rise. Therefore there has been the search of all the possible ways for the sake of abandoning smoking and it has been found that for many smokers the visiting to or moving to the hospital even for a impermanent period happens to be a novel way to stop smoking.

In the recent days a Cochrane Systematic Review has come out with the finding that there can be more possible ways of successful quitting and there are ready methods of enhancing it, provided the affected patients become fortunate to have smoking cessation counselling during their stay to be followed by a sympathetic contact for at least the next one month.       

The chief reason in this aspect is since the hospitals are compulsorily made as a non-smoking zone, no person, not to speak of the patient are permitted to have a smoke and has to relinquish from smoking even for a brief period of time. It has been found that people, who happen to be in hospital, in particular those with smoking-related illnesses, are often highly accessible to the suggestion that they should try and break their habit. As a result, they as a natural group of people who are targeted with interventions that help them in the near future to achieve this goal. In addition, the research of the Cochrane Collaboration has indicated that that this package of therapy can be of a great help to the smokers who have to go to the hospital for the worsening health related conditions, even though they are not related with the particular diseases related to the tobacco addiction.

The sole conclusion in this context has derived from the viable work that worked extensively on the basis of data from 33 trials that involved over a strength of 5600 people. According to the research, it has been found that through the effective application of intensive interventions with a definite time frame of no less than 30 minutes of counselling in the hospital to be followed by one-month of additional supportive care at least have proven signs of gradual development.  

Speaking on this the prominent researcher Dr. Nancy Rigotti, MD, and also the Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Tobacco Research and Treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA said, "High intensity behavioural interventions that begin during a hospital stay and include at least one month of supportive contact after discharge promote smoking cessation among hospitalized patients."